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Poetry analysis is the process of investigating the form of a poem, content, structural semiotics, and history in an informed way, with the aim of heightening one's own and others' understanding and appreciation of the work. [1] The words poem and poetry derive from the Greek poiēma (to make) and poieo (to create).
Siegfried Sassoon, a British war poet famous for his poetry written during the First World War.. War poetry is poetry on the topic of war. While the term is applied especially to works of the First World War, [1] the term can be applied to poetry about any war, including Homer's Iliad, from around the 8th century BC as well as poetry of the American Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, the ...
An Anthology of War Poetry, Royal Society of Arts, Journal 91:4649 (Oct. 1, 1943) Austin, Alfred (1870), The Poetry of the Period; Brooks, Cleanth (1951), The Formalist Critics; Hand, Harry E., And War Be Done: Battle-Pieces and Other Civil War Poetry of Herman Melville; Lomas, Herbert, The Critic as Anti-Hero: War Poetry; Richards, I.A. (1924 ...
The War Within, a 2005 film; The War Within (Shadows Fall album), 2004; The War Within, a 1994 book by Tom Wells on America's internal battle over the war in Vietnam; The War Within (Woodward book), a book by Bob Woodward on the Bush Administration; The War Within (Matas book), a fictional book by Carol Matas regarding the issues of the America ...
The Pentrich Rising was an armed uprising around the village of Pentrich, Derbyshire, England, on the night of 9–10 June 1817.While much of the planning took place in Pentrich, two of the three ringleaders were from South Wingfield and the other was from Sutton in Ashfield; it started from Hunt's Barn in South Wingfield, and the only person killed died in Wingfield Park.
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is the first book of poetry of the American author Herman Melville.Published by Harper & Brothers of New York in 1866, the volume is dedicated "To the Memory of the Three Hundred Thousand Who in the War For the Maintenance of the Union Fell Devotedly Under the Flag of Their Fathers" and its 72 poems deal with the battles and personalities of the American ...
Roger Rosenblatt calls it a "clever trick" of a poem, and emphasizes how the nomenclature of the rifle parts "mimics the flowering of spring". [2] Susan Manning considered it to be "a studied, ironic catalogue of some parts of experience silencing others" which "excludes more than it includes", noting the presence of "the beauty of nature and its utter irrelevance to the human struggle".
Drum-Taps is a collection of poetry composed by American poet Walt Whitman during the American Civil War. The collection was published in May 1865. [1] The first 500 copies of the collection were printed in April 1865, [2] the same month President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.